The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Nine Adventures from the Lost Years

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From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return.

What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's -great hiatus- after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes- signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world greatest detective.

Ted Riccardi is a professor emeritus in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He has served as the Counselor of Cultural Affairs at the United States Embassy in New Delhi. Ted and his wife split their time between New York City and Nepal.

-The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is filled with fascinating detail about the Orient, and provides an answer as to what Holmes was up to during those missing years. And of course he had to be reunited with his most trustworthy of friends, Dr. John Watson! Who else could possibly relay to us the adventures of the world greatest detective?- - Anne Perry
-I-ve had a wonderfully entertaining time following Sherlock Holmes- astonishing adventures in the Orient. Ted Riccardi has captured the precise cadence and style of Dr. Watson accounts of his famous friend cases.- - Santha Rama Rau, author of Home to India
-There no way to dance around it: Ted Riccardi work is absolutely brilliant. It is as if he is channeling Conan Doyle. Once you-re a few pages into these stories, you would swear that these were newly discovered manuscripts, unearthed by Conan Doyle's estate. I had the feeling that I had stumbled upon some pulp magazines in an alternate universe where Conan Doyle was still writing. Riccardi has it all down-the cadence, the language, everything. It is as if each and every tale in this volume was written at the turn of the century.- - Bookreporter.com